The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-02

RUSSIAN naval vessels are oelAS hs'd Ia
readiness to obey active ordorS al mo
ments notice.
CANADIANS are considering the idea OF
having their fishing vessels registered as
English, in order to throw on England the
responsibility of protection against the
retaliatory measures of the United States.
Mr.. GLADSTONE threatens that IL the
cloture is unduly brought into exercise in
discussing the coercion measure, he will
appeal to the Speaker of the House OF
Commons to refuse to put motion TO
close debate.
Hon. VIM MACDoUGAL, one OF the
trainers of the Canadian confederation,
has created sensation in the Dominion
by defending the position taken og Secre'
tary Bayard in regard to the narrow con-
struction put upon the treaty OF 1918 by
the present Dominion Government.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan has caused
the decapitation of Sayad, father-in-law
of the late chief of Kohistan, for treason,
having discovered that Sayad was in com.
munication with Ayoob Khan, the deposed
Ameer.
THE editor of the Pottsdam NGchrichten,
which has Just published the story that
the Car had shot Lieutenant Villaume,
the military attache to the German en-
bassy at st. Petersburg, has been sen
fenced to six weeks Imprisonment for the
cffense.
REV. MATsoN MEIR SMITH, ID. D., pro
lessor Of pastoral theology in the Protest
ant Episcopal Divinity school in Philadel,
phia, died IN that city on the Goth Of heart
disease.
WILLIAM DUNLAP,a fireman, and several
others were injured IN collision on the
New Jersey Central railway near Rock.
port, Pa, on the Goth
PITTSBURGH coal dealers are protesting
| against the new railroad shipping rates,
which they claim, if not modified, will
prove ruinous to Pittsburgh's lake trade.
| ANOTHER revolt is said to have broken
out in the Balkans.
The building used as a paint shop by
the Austin. Tomlinson q Webster Manu-
featuring Company III the Michigan State
prison Enclosure, was burned on the night
of the Goth, together with some other ad
| joining shops. The convicts in the cell
houses were in state of great excite
ment during the progress of the fire, bu
the buildings being practically fire-proof
their danger was more imaginary thar
| real.
MINISTER PHELPS and wife will not re
turn to London till about Easter
A FIvE-MILE skating race in Victorit
Rink at ST. John, N. b., on the night of thu
sch, between Dowd, of Montreal, ant
Mccormick of st. John was witnessed BY
10000 people. Mccormick won by a YARD
in 1902.
GENERAL ELI HUGHES died at his home
in Hadley, Me-, on the 9th. He was Gen
eral of the First brigade Of the Connect
cut militia at the breaking out of the war
at which time he resigned He wa
seventy years old, had been married thre
times and was the father of sixteen child
rem, ten of whom survive him, as doe
his third wife.
TIE following is the inscription on
brass tablet, which has recently beel
placed in the window in the south tran
sept of st. Johns Church, Washington
This inscription, in memory of Cheste
Allen Arthur, is placed here by the vestry
He was the twenty first President of tn,
United States, a worshiper in the church
and in 1884 erected the window to tn
memory of his wife. He died Novombe
Is, 1856"